Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Sometimes in the animated life of a blog, it becomes necessary, for no particularly good reason, to insert a photograph of a zebra. Or even of two zebras. You may understandably wonder . . . "Has he lost his marbles?" "Has he been drinking?" "Has he gone clear around the bend?" But nevertheless, the implacable logic of blogging required a zebra in this blog at this exact point in time. These are not, by the way, the first zebras to appear in these pages, and probably not the last. A total of no less than 12 previous posts have dealt with the philosophically challenging topic of zebras. How could such a divinely decorated ass's uncle exist in the first place ? Now that is a stumper . . ..

Zebras are great. I don't think of zebras often enough. Seeing these zebras on your post was exactly what I needed at this point in time. I feel so much better now. There they are in black and white in black and white. Not afraid to show their stripes. Yes, this blog post was black and white and read all over, with great pleasure.

For a moment I thought you had cloned the zebra's image to appear again in the photo, but there are many differences. I love the illusion of repetition, and the light branches against the medium ground, with the dark branches against the while sky repeating suggestions of the contrasting stripes. Really cool image! Glad they were a necessary interjection at this point. Double the pleasure to see. :-)-Kim

"...it is under the light of madness, that a human being can really be judged in all extension, it is under the glass of madness that a man evil or well intended motivations can be clearly dissected, and it is only under the influence of madness when a man can see beyond the hoax reallity is. . . "

Hey Everybody .... can't even tell you all how much I smiled and guffawed and chuckled and whatnot while reading all your funny comments here... Evidently the subject of zebras resonates nicely with more than a few of you... Well, I shall just have to put on the zebra carnaval mask tonight and go do a zebra dance in the moonlight...

Thinking warm thoughts back at all of you... promise to come visit me once they lock me up in the zebra ward ?:-)

Owen!"Has he lost his marbles?" "Has he been drinking?" "Has he gone clear around the bend?" ..Why..um..yes I have and I'm a better man for it!Lovely photo!..come see my new paintings on my blog..yes dear boy I have been VERY BUSY as of late!Cheers!Harry-Mojo

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Why ? Answer : Why not ? Originally from a foreign country, now French and living in France for the past 20 years. Am still adapting to culture shock. Frequently go out scouring the countryside, camera in hand, looking for my dream house, for my dreamtime, for my dreams.
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